Carbon Footprint Contest
More and more companies are starting to receive questions about their environmental impact, resource consumption, or emissions generated by their activities. However, for many SMEs, measuring the carbon footprint remains a complicated, technical, and difficult subject to tackle.
Where do you start? What data do you need? How much does it cost? And most importantly, what do you actually do with the information obtained?
One of the biggest challenges is internal administrative chaos. The necessary information is scattered across multiple sources, files, and departments, making the process difficult to manage without a clear and coherent system.
To make this process more accessible and easier to understand, eEco.ro and StratoScope are launching the contest "Your Company's First Carbon Footprint."
Prize: Complete CO2 Calculation
Through this initiative, a company will be able to win a complete CO2 footprint calculation, free of charge, conducted with the help of the StratoScope platform and the Stratos Management team.
To benefit from this prize, preliminary discussions will take place with the company's team, relevant information will be collected, available data will be analyzed, the actual footprint will be calculated, and conclusions and general recommendations will be presented.
Practically, the selected company will benefit from an evaluation of all emissions across the entire value chain, technically called Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3.
In short:
- Scope 1 includes direct emissions generated by the company, such as fuel consumed by its own vehicles or equipment used;
- Scope 2 refers to purchased and consumed energy, such as electricity or heating;
- Scope 3 includes indirect emissions generated by the company's activity along the value chain – transport, suppliers, purchases, travel, waste, or other related activities.
Often, a company's largest emissions are found in Scope 3, which is why a complete evaluation of this kind provides a much more realistic picture of the total impact of the activity.
The evaluation is conducted according to the GHG Protocol methodology, one of the most widely used international standards for calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
As part of the project, an educational and informative video material will also be produced about the carbon footprint measurement process and the challenges companies face when trying to understand their environmental impact.
Who can participate?
Companies from Romania and abroad can participate in the contest, regardless of their field of activity or size, producers, service providers, or other entities interested in better understanding the impact of their activity.
The contest is also open to companies that have previously conducted a carbon footprint evaluation and wish to compare results, update their data, or simply better understand the measurement process.
Why is measuring the carbon footprint important?
In recent years, more and more companies have started to receive requests related to environmental impact, energy consumption, CO2 emissions, traceability, or sustainability policies.
Often, these requests come from clients, international partners, supply chains, investors, or in the context of new European obligations and trends.
Therefore, for these companies, measuring the carbon footprint becomes a necessity.
For others, however, it may simply be a way to better understand how the organization operates and where there may be opportunities for optimization, efficiency, or cost reduction.
Even if no one has requested this information yet, many companies may find that the measurement process actually helps them better understand where they consume the most resources, what activities generate high costs, where there are losses, how they can optimize energy consumption, how they can organize transport, purchases, or operations more efficiently. And, in general, how they can make better long-term decisions.
In many cases, companies make operational or financial decisions without having a clear picture of their consumption and the real impact of their activities. But how can you efficiently manage what you don't measure?
In practice, measuring the carbon footprint doesn't just mean sustainability or ESG reporting. For many organizations, it can also become a tool for management, planning, and why not, business strategy.
Yes, most of the time the process starts as an obligation or curiosity. But over time, the collected data becomes useful for cost optimization, relationships with partners and clients, accessing new markets, or making better-informed decisions.
Companies that start earlier to understand these processes are, most often, better prepared for future market and commercial partner requirements.
How to register?
Participation is free.
Interested companies must complete the registration form, answering a few questions about the company's activity and interest in this process.
Filling out the form takes approximately 5 minutes.
Registrations are open from May 13 to July 13, 2026.
The selected company will be contacted directly by the organizers to establish the next steps of the project.
Sometimes, the first step towards sustainability is not perfection, but understanding your own impact.
